OT - The Boneyard Greatest Movie of All-Time Tournament

[J187Money]

Being John Malkovich

American Beauty

High Fidelity

3 other great films.

 

[VKong]

12 Years a Slave
LOTR Trilogy
Silence of the Lambs
Gangs of New York
Blue Jasmine

 

[Hans Sprungfeld]

Thanks for the two mentions of "Dazed and Confused." They reminded me that either "Slacker" or "Waking Life" would be my Richard Linklater entry. Also, thanks for the reminder to put mine into the Google form. I might actually do that before the deadline.

Two non-fictions:

Powaqattsi
Thin Blue Line

So many . . .

 

[Wise2]

Die Hard
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Shawshank Redemption
My Cousin Vinny
A Few Good Men
Animal House
Stripes
Caddyshack
Jaws
ET
Aliens
Hoosiers
Heaven can wait
Rocky III

 

[auror]

That's my thoughts exactly. Casablanca #1, then a bunch of others I really liked.

Silence of the Lambs
Godfather
Defending Your Life
Children of Men
The Royal Tenenbaums (all Wes Anderson, actually)

Liked for Children of Men

 

[StepbackCity]

If you don’t put The Dark Knight in there, that’s highly unfortunate.

 

[JMick]

I also love movies but you won't find many that were mentioned that I truly believe are GOAT or top 10 material. Some "oddball" choices:

The Matrix
Superbad
Toy Story
Monty Python & the holy Grail
Iron Man (for reasons beyond the movie itself)

 

[CL82]

So far there have been 18 responses through the Google form, and 18 unique choices for #1. For anyone who missed it please put your choices in by clicking the link in the OP or below.

Boneyard Greatest Movie of All-Time Entry!

Oops, totally missed that we have to submit a separate form.

Just submitted mine.

 

[CL82]

Iron Man (for reasons beyond the movie itself)

Started a genre and two lucrative franchises. Very watchable movie regardless.

 

[CL82]

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

These are interesting choices especially back to back.

 

[JCSuperstar]

Would love to see this broken down by genre in the offseason. More fun to see Airplane vs. Blazing Saddles than either one of them vs. The Godfather.

Hard to vote against the big dramas even when the comedy or action flick its up against might have been perfect for what it was trying to do.

 

[8893]

If you don’t put The Dark Knight in there, that’s highly unfortunate.

I should have included that and Jaws on mine. Not sure what I would bump, but both of those belong imo.

 

[JMick]

Started a genre and two lucrative franchises. Very watchable movie regardless.

It's such an important movie. It was very good at the time and it holds up extremely well.

 

[mrl2016]

(No Order)

A Few Good Men
Dark Knight
The Truman Show
Apollo 13
Zodiak
Good Will Hunting
Shooter
FightClub
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Dazed and Confused
Shawshank
Friday Night Lights
GoodFellas
Happy Gilmore
The Green Mile
Inglorious Bastards


Honorable mention:
Gangs of New York

 

[zymurg]

Thanks for the two mentions of "Dazed and Confused." They reminded me that either "Slacker" or "Waking Life" would be my Richard Linklater entry. Also, thanks for the reminder to put mine into the Google form. I might actually do that before the deadline.

Two non-fictions:

Powaqattsi
Thin Blue Line

So many . . .

For me the two Linklalater choices would be "Before Midnight" and "Boyhood" with "Waking Life" a close third.
I also like "Thin Blue Line."

 

[Waquoit]

Would love to see this broken down by genre in the offseason. More fun to see Airplane vs. Blazing Saddles than either one of them vs. The Godfather..

Also, are we choosing what we think are the greatest movies or our favorite movies? For instance, I would rather watch Blazing Saddles than Citizen Kane but the latter is clearly the superior film.

 

[ConnEd]

Submitted my list. Saving Private Ryan tops my list followed by Unforgiven. A couple that I forgot about and got left off or not considered - Fargo, Memento, American Beauty, Patton, The Right Stuff, The Killing Fields, and Dr. Strangelove. Others have mentioned a lot of great movies. I went heavy on comedies. That genre doesn't get a lot of recognition on "Best" and "Greatest" lists, but they end up being the movies that I will rewatch most often. Has to mean something. Right?

 

[8893]

Also, are we choosing what we think are the greatest movies or our favorite movies? For instance, I would rather watch Blazing Saddles than Citizen Kane but the latter is clearly the superior film.

I debated this very thing about Talladega Nights, which I am always happy to watch no matter when I catch it. But then I thought better of putting it on the Greatest Movie of All-Time Tournament thread.

 

[ClifSpliffy]

metropolis
king kong (1933), grapes of wrath (my #2), citizen kane
streetcar named desire, the birds
soylent green, a boy named charlie brown
jaws, apocalypse now, blues brothers, manhattan
hotel new hampshire, ran, head office (my #1), less than zero, running man, caddyshack,
ghostbusters, ferris bueller's day off
legends of the fall, hoop dreams, men in black
an inconvenient truth, ratatouille, talladega nights, grand budapest hotel, crazy rich asians.
(I can't count-got my shoes on...)

 

[CL82]

Also, are we choosing what we think are the greatest movies or our favorite movies? For instance, I would rather watch Blazing Saddles than Citizen Kane but the latter is clearly the superior film.

It's simple. I love movies, you probably like movies. I want you to give me a list of up to 16 of your absolute favorite films.

 

[Mano]

Right. Collectively we will then decide what’s Greatest among them.

 

[Waquoit]

I guess I have to go back and add Blazing Saddles, Holy Grail and The Sting.

 

[superjohn]

For me the two Linklalater choices would be "Before Midnight" and "Boyhood" with "Waking Life" a close third.
I also like "Thin Blue Line."

Boyhood great in concept, poor in execution. I'm probably in the minority but I found it boring and the characters unlikable.

A Thin Blue Line was probably groundbreaking for the time but after seeing so many amazing true crime docs in recent years Thin Blue Line didn't hold up great for me when I watched it recently.

 

[Madmannsucks]

Adding a couple.
To Kill a Mockingbird.
Friday the 13th(only for spawning an entire genre)

 

[CL82]

Right. Collectively we will then decide what’s Greatest among them.

I didn't spend a lot of time of the list. My approach was to list 16 movies that I'd think about watching if they on and then which would I choose if multiple ones were on. That list would vary day to day but I thought it was a good proxy for which films are my favorites.